OBAMA IS LIKE CLEMENT ATTLEE: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS INSTAPUNDIT AND PROF BAINBRIDGE BY A YEAR AND A HALF!

GLENN TONIGHT:

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE ON OBAMA AND THE BCS:

One day shortly after the Second World War ended, Winston Churchill and Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee encountered one another at the urinal trough in the House of Common’s men’s washroom. Attlee arrived first. When Churchill arrived, he stood as far away from him as possible. Attlee said, “Feeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?” Churchill said: “That’s right. Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.”

I’m reminded of that story by news that President Obama plans to regulate the college football playoff system. . . . With the government already running the banks and the auto industry, and trying to take over the health care industry, however, one might have hoped that sports would escape the ravening maw of Leviathan.

But I guess Attlee and Obama are kindred spirits.

Well, let’s hope that Obama doesn’t do for America what Attlee did for Britain, though that does seem to be the goal . . . .

Posted at by Glenn Reynolds at 6:35 pm

GREAT STORY.

ER, UM... BUT WE MADE THE COMPARISON BETWEEN OBAMA AND ATTLEE SEVERAL TIMES AS LONG AGO AS A YEAR AND HALF.

WE FREAKIN' OWN IT:

A WARNING POSTED ON JULY 20, 2008 - BEFORE THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN AND THE ELECTION:

WHAT CHURCHILL'S LOSS IN 1945 MIGHT TELL US ABOUT 2008 IN THE USA

BBC - JULY 26, 1945, (ALMOST EXACTLY 63 YEARS AGO):

Clement Attlee has been elected Britain's new prime minister after Labour won a sweeping victory in the general election.


The outgoing prime minister and great wartime leader Winston Churchill tendered his resignation immediately.


The landslide victory comes as a major shock to the Conservatives following Mr Churchill's hugely successful term as Britain's war-time coalition leader, during which he mobilised and inspired courage in an entire nation.

People voted for Attlee, in spite of admiring Churchill as a hero

... Mr Attlee, 62, was welcomed by the King shortly afterwards and asked to form a new Government.

Throughout the election campaign Mr Churchill had appealed to the country to give his new National Government - formed after the dissolution of the Coalition government in May - a good majority.

But the appeal was rejected by the people of Britain, largely, it is thought, because they believed Labour's promises to implement the Beveridge Report and its plans for creating a welfare state.

Tired of war, the British people thought they could take a holiday from history - again, just as they had after WW1.

Just as we did after the collapse of the USSR.

And the people who want Obama to become POTUS and CiC are animated by the same misguided, irrational and anti-historical impulses.

And the desire to have the government do for them what they should do for themselves.

The British Welfare State - like ours and like welfare states everywhere - was a failure. It diminished Great Britain and led to increased suffering. It took 30 years and Thatcher to undo it's stranglehold and save Britain from collapse.

The USA and Great Britain don't need to replay the mistakes of the past and elect Attlees or Carters or Clintons.

We don't need to take another holiday from history - not with Iran and al Qaeda still threatening the free world.

We don't need to expand the welfare state. That would just drag down the entire economy, if not the world's economy.

We don't need another Clement Attlee.

We need Reagans and Thatchers.

The closest we'll come this election is McCain - who is more like Churchill than Attlee.

CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA -
a dove who wants to reinvigorate the welfare state

THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION:

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

PREDICTION: THE ELECTION OF AMERICA'S "CLEMENT ATTLEE" WILL BRING ON "THE OBAMA INTIFADA"

We first posted on this parallel in July, and it has come to pass: THE USA ELECTED ITS ATTLEE.

WIKI ON ATTLEE:

The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon the assumption that full employment would be maintained by Keynesian policies, and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created -- aspirations that had been outlined in the wartime Beveridge Report. Within this context, his government undertook the nationalisation of major industries and public utilities as well as the creation of the National Health Service. After initial Conservative opposition, this settlement was by and large accepted by all parties[2] until Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party in the 1970s.

WHAT WE POSTED IN JULY 2008:

Tired of war, the British people thought they could take a holiday from history - again, just as they had after WW1.

Just as we did after the collapse of the USSR.

And the people who want Obama to become POTUS and CiC are animated by the same misguided, irrational and anti-historical impulses.

And the desire to have the government do for them what they should do for themselves.

The British Welfare State - like ours and like welfare states everywhere - was a failure. It diminished Great Britain and led to increased suffering. It took 30 years and Thatcher to undo it's stranglehold and save Britain from collapse.

The USA and Great Britain don't need to replay the mistakes of the past and elect Attlees or Carters or Clintons.

We don't need to take another holiday from history - not with Iran and al Qaeda still threatening the free world.

We don't need to expand the welfare state. That would just drag down the entire economy, if not the world's economy.

We don't need another Clement Attlee.

We need Reagans and Thatchers.

The closest we'll come this election is McCain - who is more like Churchill than Attlee.

CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA -
a dove who wants to reinvigorate the welfare state

WELL... HERE WE GO AGAIN!

The socialistic policies of Attlee and Obama always have the same results.

The policy of appeasement always has the same results, too.

Socialism and appeasement will make the USA weaker and poorer - and this sends a clear signal to our adversaries.

Because weakness invites adventurism, there will be another intifada in Israel (their third), another in Europe - AND OUR FIRST IN THE USA.

THE OBAMA INTIFADA.

And Putin and Iran will become more aggressive in Venezuela.

And Putin will become more aggressive in Georgia and Ukraine.

And Iran will become more aggressive in Iraq.

And al Qaeda will become more aggressive in Pakistan and Kashmir.

And al Qaeda will attack us here again, too.

Obama will weaken our defenses by weakening our ability to gather intel by weakening the NSA Intercept Programs.

Obama will weaken us by ceasing deployment of Missile defense in Eastern Europe and Alaska.

And Obama will weaken us by cutting the defense budget.

TO AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OBAMA'S POLICIES WILL PRODUCE, WE MUST FIGHT OBAMA'S DANGEROUS POLICIES EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

WE SHALL.

JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, 1/18/09 (EXCERPT):

"OBAMA IS NOT ANOTHER LINCOLN; HE'S ANOTHER CLEMENT ATTLEE"

3/2/09 (EXCERPT):

• WE NEED ANOTHER THATCHER AND WE NEED HER NOW!

• THATCHER UNDID ATTLEE'S NATIONALIZATION AND SOCIALISM - AND SAVED BRITAIN.

• OBAMA IS OUR ATTLEE.

• WHERE IS OUR THATCHER?!

5/22/09 (EXCERPT):

THE UNBRIDLED SOCIALISM OF OBAMA

He's taken over the auto industry.

And a lot of the banking/financial industry.

And he has his eyes on the healthcare industry.

Together, they make up a BIG chunk of the economy. What... maybe 30%? Plus the federal government already is a huge part of the economy.

This explosive growth of the government is an un-American intrusion into pour businesses and is FUNDAMENTALLY anti-freemarket.

There's been nothing like it since Attlee took over from Churchill after WW2 - and nationalized about 60% of the British economy. RUINING IT FOR THREE DECADES!

10/31/09:

OBAMA: THE MOST LEFT-WING PRESIDENT IN THE ENTIRE WEST SINCE CLEMENT ATTLEE

WHAT OBAMA, SOROS AND THE SEIU ARE ATTEMPTING
IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE ATTLEEFICATION OF AMERICA.

AN ADMINISTRATION OF THE LEFT, BY THE LEFT
AND FOR THE LEFT.

I HAVEN'T POSTED ALL THIS TO BRAG.

IT'S TO PROVE THAT WHAT MY 1500 READERS A DAY READ HERE IS AT LEAST AS GOOD AS WHAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE READ EACH DAY AT THE BIG BLOGS.

AS A FEW OF MY GREAT CO-BLOGGERS KNOW, IT'S FRUSTRATING TO BE AHEAD OF THE CURVE ON SO MANY THINGS AND ON SO MUCH ANALYSIS AND TO GET COMPARATIVELY LITTLE BIG-TIME LINKAGE ON IT OR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR IT.

GLENN AND BAINBRIDGE ARE BIGTIME RESPECTED BLOGGERS, YET I BEAT THEM ON THIS BY YEARS.

AND I BEAT THEM AND OTHER BIGTIME BLOGGERS BY MONTHS AND WEEKS AND DAYS ON SOME ITEM EVERY SINGLE DAMN WEEK.

SIGH.

WHAT CAN IS SAY!?

I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE!

THANKS!

I mean that. Thank you. Thank you for all 2,000,000+ page views!

OBAMA IS NOT ANOTHER LINCOLN; HE'S ANOTHER CLEMENT ATTLEE

• SOME PEOPLE - MANY IN THE OBAMA TEAM ITSELF! - ARE COMPARING OBAMA TO LINCOLN.

• (ROUND UP OBAMA=LINCOLN HERE.)
  

• OTHERS TO THE COPPERHEADS - WHICH IS MORE ACCURATE, OF COURSE.

BUT I HAVE LONG COMPARED OBAMA TO ATTLEE. I'LL STICK WITH IT, TOO:

We first posted on this parallel in July, and it has come to pass: THE USA ELECTED ITS ATTLEE.

WIKI ON ATTLEE:

The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon the assumption that full employment would be maintained by Keynesian policies, and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created -- aspirations that had been outlined in the wartime Beveridge Report.

Within this context, his government undertook the nationalisation of major industries and public utilities as well as the creation of the National Health Service. After initial Conservative opposition, this settlement was by and large accepted by all parties[2] until Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party in the 1970s.

WHAT WE POSTED IN JULY 2008:

Tired of war, the British people thought they could atke a holiday from history - again, just as they had after WW1.

Just as we did after the collapse of the USSR.

And the people who want Obama to become POTUS and CiC are animated by the same misguided, irrational and anti-historical impulses.

And the desire to have the government do for them what they should do for themselves.

The British Welfare State - like ours and like welfare states everywhere - was a failure. It diminished Great Britain and led to increased suffering. It took 30 years and Thatcher to undo it's stranglehold and save Britain from collapse.

The USA and Great Britain don't need to replay the mistakes of the past and elect Attlees or Carters or Clintons.

We don't need to take another holiday from history - not with Iran and al Qaeda still threatening the free world.

We don't need to expand the welfare state. That would just drag down the entire economy, if not the world's economy.

We don't need another Clement Attlee.

We need Reagans and Thatchers.

The closest we'll come this election is McCain - who is more like Churchill than Attlee.

CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA -
a dove who wants to reinvigorate the welfare state

WELL... HERE WE GO AGAIN!

The socialistic policies of Attlee and Obama always have the same results.

The policy of appeasement always has the same results, too.

Socialism and appeasement will make the USA weaker and poorer - and this sends a clear signal to our adversaries.

Because weakness invites adventurism...

LIKE THE BRITS EXHAUSTED BY WW2, AMERICANS -EXHAUSTED BY WW4 - HAVE OPTED FOR SOCIALISM.

IT WORKED OUT BADLY FOR THE BRITS - 30 YEARS AFTER ATTLEE PUT BRITAIN ON THE ROAD TO SERFDOM THATCHER SAVED THEM.

WE NEED ANOTHER THATCHER - NOT ATTLEEISM.

REPEAT: THE POLICES OF OBAMA ARE EXACTLY LIKE ATTLEE AND WILL FAIL:

The government [ATTLEE] led put in place the post-war consensus,

based upon the assumption that full employment would be maintained by Keynesian policies,

and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created ...

IT DIDN'T WORK THEN - OR FOR FDR A DECADE EARLIER, AND IT CERTAINLY WON'T WORK NOW.

WE NEED ANOTHER THATCHER AND WE NEED HER NOW!

PREDICTION: THE ELECTION OF AMERICA'S "CLEMENT ATTLEE" WILL BRING ON "THE OBAMA INTIFADA"

We first posted on this parallel in July, and it has come to pass: THE USA ELECTED ITS ATTLEE.

WIKI ON ATTLEE:

The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon the assumption that full employment would be maintained by Keynesian policies, and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created -- aspirations that had been outlined in the wartime Beveridge Report. Within this context, his government undertook the nationalisation of major industries and public utilities as well as the creation of the National Health Service. After initial Conservative opposition, this settlement was by and large accepted by all parties[2] until Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party in the 1970s.

WHAT WE POSTED IN JULY 2008:

Tired of war, the British people thought they could atke a holiday from history - again, just as they had after WW1.

Just as we did after the collapse of the USSR.

And the people who want Obama to become POTUS and CiC are animated by the same misguided, irrational and anti-historical impulses.

And the desire to have the government do for them what they should do for themselves.

The British Welfare State - like ours and like welfare states everywhere - was a failure. It diminished Great Britain and led to increased suffering. It took 30 years and Thatcher to undo it's stranglehold and save Britain from collapse.

The USA and Great Britain don't need to replay the mistakes of the past and elect Attlees or Carters or Clintons.

We don't need to take another holiday from history - not with Iran and al Qaeda still threatening the free world.

We don't need to expand the welfare state. That would just drag down the entire economy, if not the world's economy.

We don't need another Clement Attlee.

We need Reagans and Thatchers.

The closest we'll come this election is McCain - who is more like Churchill than Attlee.

CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA -
a dove who wants to reinvigorate the welfare state

WELL... HERE WE GO AGAIN!

The socialistic policies of Attlee and Obama always have the same results.

The policy of appeasement always has the same results, too.

Socialism and appeasement will make the USA weaker and poorer - and this sends a clear signal to our adversaries.

Because weakness invites adventurism, there will be another intifada in Israel (their third), another in Europe - AND OUR FIRST IN THE USA.

THE OBAMA INTIFADA.

And Putin and Iran will become more aggressive in Venezuela.

And Putin will become more aggressive in Georgia and Ukraine.

And Iran will become more aggressive in Iraq.

And al Qaeda will become more aggressive in Pakistan and Kashmir.

And al Qaeda will attack us here again, too.

Obama will weaken our defenses by weakening our ability to gather intel by weakening the NSA Intercept Programs.

Obama will weaken us by ceasing deployment of Missile defense in Eastern Europe and Alaska.

And Obama will weaken us by cutting the defense budget.

TO AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OBAMA'S POLICIES WILL PRODUCE, WE MUST FIGHT OBAMA'S DANGEROUS POLICIES EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

WE SHALL.

OBAMA, ATTLEE AND THE INEVITABLE ECONOMIC DECLINE CAUSED BY SOCIALISM

The inevitable toll of the socialism and nationalism Clement Attlee put in place culminated in the crises and collapse of Britain's economy in the 1970's. It was much like what Greece faces now - and Spain and Italy and Portugal and every other socialist state.

Compare East Germany to west: same language, culture and geography - yet East Germany - with free healthcare, free education, free pensions (and so on) became poorer and poorer as it became less free -- while West Germany became the economic powerhouse of Europe. East Germans became serf's - poor and un-free  -- a people indentured to the state - as the traveled down the road of socialism, the road the serfdom...

Obama's policies are having the same effect on the usa economy as these polices had in East Germany and Attlee's Britain.

NOTE: Neither Greece or Spain or Portugal - (or East Germany or the USSR or Red China or Cuba or Zimbabwe or North Korea for that matter) - had "Bush tax cuts or "2 unfunded wars" or "GOP "top-down' deregulation for the greedy 1%" - as Obama liked to say.

The economic disasters the nations ALL faced were ALL caused by SOCIALISM - which reduces liberty and therefore reduces the prosperity, the economic growth which ONLY liberty produces.

As Obama limits our economic freedom he inevitably destroys our economy, and thereby he also achieves another horrifying result: the weakening of theUSA military and our ability to defend the Free World. This will only embolden Putin and China and Tehran and the Muslim Brotherhood. So, the world will get more dangerous as the USA gets poorer.

It's a double whammy.

NOTE: The NHS is in fact a health disaster - as are all the socialist healthcare schemes in the rest of Europe. IN FACT, the USA has a better longer average lifespans and much lower morbidity rates for ALL major diseases - especially when you equalize for racial/ethnic differences, (blacks have high shorter life spans than whites due to genetic diseases, and they lower the USA life span).

Details here:

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/08/basic-fallacies-and-lies-of-liberal.html 

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2005/12/amercian-longevity-increases-again.html 

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/09/reminder-usa-life-expectancy-is-better.html 

http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2009/10/commenting-on-obamacare-hearings.html

(These link to previous post which detail and document the TRUTH about Europe's socialized healthcare results versus the USA's results.)

I DARE ALL LIBERALS AND LEFTISTS TO READ THOSE POSTS. IF THEY DO, THEN THEY WILL WAKE UP! I did. I used to be leftist. Then, I saw the light. Other libs'n leftsts can too!

MORE ON OBAMA AND ATTLEE HERE; (POSTS COMPARING OBAMA AND ATTLEE GOING BACK 4 YEARS).

WHAT OBAMA'S BOW DOWN TO THE EMPEROR REALLY MEANT

Leftists argue - disingenuously - that President Obama BOWED DOWN to the Emperor of Japan merely as a show of "respect". (ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.)

BUT: The following international leaders DID NOT BOW DOWN (click for photos):

• Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
• King of Morocco
• Dick Cheney
• Prime Minister Slovenia
• President South Korea
• President Kazakhstan
• Prime Minister India
• Vladimir Putin

WERE THEY "DISRESPECTFUL"!?

NOPE.

Obama was NOT being "respectful" as the left disingenuously argues; Obama was offering a STEALTH APOLOGY for winning WWw and winning by using nuclear weapons on Hiroshima - and then a week later - on Nagasaki.

Nearly everything Obama has done on his watch so far can be characterized as STEALTH SOCIALISM:

• his cap & trade policy;

  IT'S REALLY A STEALTHY WAY TO HAVE THE GOV'T GAIN CONTROL OF INDUSTRY BY CONTROLLING ENERGY;

• his healthcare "reform" policy;

  IT'S REALLY A STEALTHY WAY TO HAVE THE GOV'T GAIN CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE;

• his immigration policy;

  IT'S REALLY A STEALTHY WAY TO HAVE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY CAPTURE ILLEGALS AS A VOTING BLOC;

• his Afghanistan "policy";

  HIS DITHERING IS A STEALTHY WAY TO SURRENDER;

• his order to have the fed's step back from enforcing federal marijuana laws;

  IT'S REALLY A STEALTHY WAY TO LEGALIZE DRUGS;

• his decison to move the KSM's trial to NYC;

  IT'S REALLY JUST A STEALTHY WAY TO PUNISH THE CIA AND THE PENTAGON FOR USING EVERY AVAILABLE LEGAL MEANS TO DEFEND THE USA AND COMBAT GLOBAL JIHAD - AND - IT'S A STEALTHY WAY FOR OBAMA TO AID AND ABET AL QAEDA.

AND SO ON...

• IF OBAMA HAD RUN AN HONEST CAMPAIGN, AND CAMPAIGNED BY SAYING HE WOULD DO IN HIS FIRST YEAR WHAT HE HAS DONE SO FAR, THEN HE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE ANY BETTER THAN KUCINICH.

• HE LIED - DELIBERATELY TO WIN. WITH OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND REID AND PELOSI ON THE HILL, THEY FELT THEY COULD TURN THE USA INTO A SOCIALIST COUNTRY - AS ATTLEE & LABOUR DID TO BRITAIN AFTER WW2.
  

• HIS CAMPAIGN WAS, FROM ITS VERY INCEPTION AND IN EVERY DETAIL OF ITS STRATEGY, A STEALTH CAMPAIGN.

WHY!?

• THE LEFTISTS RUNNING THE SHOW (THE CHICAGO MACHINE, ACORN, THE SEIU, AND SOROS) KNEW IF OBAMA RAN AS WHAT HE REALLY WAS THAT HE'D NEVER EVER WIN.

• THANK GOD THAT THE EYES OF THE INDEPENDENTS WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA HAVE BEEN OPENED.

• INDEPENDENT AND MODERATES WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA NOW SEE THAT JOE THE PLUMBER WAS RIGHT.

• HAVING BEEN ONCE BURNED BY OBAMA, THEY WILL NOT BE FOOLED AGAIN.
  

THE 2009 BY-ELECTIONS WERE JUST A TASTE OF WHAT'S TO COME IN 2010: PATRIOTS WILL ONCE AGAIN TAKE OVER THE CONGRESS IN 2010.

WE WILL ROLL-BACK OBAMA'S LEFTIST PROGRAM AND IMPEACH THE BASTARD.

OBAMA CEDES POLAND AND CZECH REPUBLIC - SCRAPS MISSILE DEFENSE FOR EUROPE

He's an appeaser and an amateur, and the whole world of thugs know it, and are predictably filling the power vacuum left by America's retreat.

OBAMA APPEASES PUTIN AS PUTIN ADVANCES IN VENEZUELA:

NYTIMES:

It amounts to one of the biggest national security reversals by the new administration, one that will aggravate Czech and Polish allies and possibly please Russia, which has adamantly objected to the Bush system.

... “Today, shortly after midnight, American President Barack Obamacontacted me by telephone to inform me that his administration is pulling out of plans to build a radar for the anti-missile defense system on the territory of the Czech Republic,” Mr. Fischer said, adding that “Polandwas informed in the same manner.”


A Polish diplomat said early Thursday that Warsaw was waiting to hear, but added that “it is clear that the administration has other priorities.”



In arranging a post-midnight call by Mr. Obama and quickly dispatching a top State Department official to Europe, the administration was scrambling to notify and assure the European allies as word of its decision was already leaking out in Washington. The Wall Street Journalreported Thursday that the administration would jettison the Bush architecture.


But it made for unfortunate timing, coming on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II, a date fraught with sensitivity for Poles who viewed the Bush missile defense system as a political security blanket against Russia.

OBAMA IS MAKING US LESS SAFE.

IF HE REALLY WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM DESIRING TO HARM THE WEST AND AID RUSSIA AND IRAN WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?

NOPE.

Reliapundit adds:

Exactly as I predicted the day after the election:

The socialistic policies of Attlee and Obama always have the same results.

The policy of appeasement always has the same results, too.

Socialism and appeasement will make the USA weaker and poorer - and this sends a clear signal to our adversaries.

Because weakness invites adventurism, there will be another intifada in Israel (their third), another in Europe - AND OUR FIRST IN THE USA.

THE OBAMA INTIFADA.

And Putin and Iran will become more aggressive in Venezuela. [CHECK!]

And Putin will become more aggressive in Georgia and Ukraine.

And Iran will become more aggressive in Iraq. [CHECK!]

And al Qaeda will become more aggressive in Pakistan and Kashmir. [CHECK!]

And al Qaeda will attack us here again, too. {WE MAY HAVE JUST FOILED A BIG ONE - SO: CHECK!]

Obama will weaken our defenses by weakening our ability to gather intel by weakening the NSA Intercept Programs.

Obama will weaken us by ceasing deployment of Missile defense in Eastern Europe and Alaska. [EXACTO-EFFING RIGHT!]

And Obama will weaken us by cutting the defense budget. [CHECK!]

TO AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OBAMA'S POLICIES WILL PRODUCE, WE MUST FIGHT OBAMA'S DANGEROUS POLICIES EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

WE SHALL.

We must continue to fight Obama until he is utterly neutralized and unable to harm the defenses and economies of the Free World.

UPDATE: AS DRUDGE POINTED OUT: THIS WAS ANNOUNCED ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIA'S INVASION OF POLAND.

HOW FITTING.

UPDATE #2:

Excellent Timing on Missile-Shield Decision! [Mark Hemingway]

Aside from Thursday being the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, here's the latest from the Associated Press:

Nuke agency says Iran can make bomb

VIENNA - Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press.

AMAZING VIDEO: MCCAIN TELLING OBAMA OFF!

INSPIRED BY THIS - VIA ACE:



AND REMEMBER THIS - AN ACTUAL LETTER MCCAIN SENT OBAMA, WHEN HE REALLY DID TELL HIM OFF:

ONCE AGAIN, OBAMA PROVES HE IS UNTRUSTWORTHY

John McCain released a SCATHING and SARCASTIC letter he sent to Senator Barack Obama.

Here's an EXCERPT:

Dear Senator Obama:

I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere.

When you approached me and insisted that despite your leadership’s preference to use the issue to gain a political advantage in the 2006 elections, you were personally committed to achieving a result that would reflect credit on the entire Senate and offer the country a better example of political leadership, I concluded your professed concern for the institution and the public interest was genuine and admirable.

Thank you for disabusing me of such notions with your letter to me dated February 2, 2006, which explained your decision to withdraw from our bipartisan discussions.

I’m embarrassed to admit that after all these years in politics I failed to interpret your previous assurances as typical rhetorical gloss routinely used in politics to make self-interested partisan posturing appear more noble.

Again, sorry for the confusion, but please be assured I won’t make the same mistake again. [...]

As I noted, I initially believed you shared that goal. But I understand how important the opportunity to lead your party’s effort to exploit this issue must seem to a freshman Senator, and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness.

Again, I have been around long enough to appreciate that in politics the public interest isn’t always a priority for every one of us. Good luck to you, Senator.

Sincerely,

John McCain United States Senate

Readers of this blog ARE NOT SURPRISED BY OBAMA'S UNTRUSTWORTHINESS. I posted a story about Obama in June 2005 which proved he has NO HONOR and NO CLASS. EXCERPT.

WE CAN WIN THIS THING IF YOU VOTE MCCAIN!

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN!

KEEP FIGHTIN'! LIKE SPARTANS!

WE MUSTN'T DO NOW WHAT GREAT BRITAIN DID IN 1946.

THEY ELECTED CLEMENT ATTLEE AND STARTED DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.

A FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL WRECK, THEY HAD TO BE SAVED BY THATCHER 35 YEARS LATER.

OBAMA IS OUR ATTLEE.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMA REVEALS HIMSELF AGAIN: RETURNS BUST OF CHURCHILL TO BRITAIN

VIA MEMEORANDUM:

Barack Obama sends bust of Winston Churchill on its way back to Britain:

Barack Obama has sent Sir Winston Churchill packing and pulse rates soaring among anxious British diplomats.

A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.

The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush's tenure.

But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: "Thanks, but no thanks."

OBAMA SHOULD REQUEST A BUST OF CLEMENT ATTLEE.

• IN THE ELECTION SOON AFTER V.E. DAY, CHURCHILL LOST TO THE LABOUR/SOCIALIST CANDIDATE CLEMENT ATTLEE, WHO NATIONALIZED EVERYTHING AND PUT BRITAIN ON THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.

• THIRTY YEARS LATER, THATCHER SAVED BRITAIN BY SCRAPING SOCIALISM.

• OBAMA SHOULD BE EMULATING THATCHER; INSTEAD HE'S EMULATING ATTLEE.

• HE WILL GET THE SAME RESULTS.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

WHICH IS WORSE, BIG BUSINESS OR BIG GOVERNMENT?

The left would have you believe that Big Corporations and their profits are evil and that the solution is Big Government.

This is wrong.

No Big Corporation has ever forced me or anyone else to do bupkus.

We choose to buy their stuff or not. And they have to compete among themselves - on price and quality - to get me to buy their stuff.

If I don't want it, then I don't buy it.

And if I buy it and don't like it I can often return it. If not, then I can try to resell it in the open market.

This competition for my hard-earned dollar is why things get better and values improve.

But Big Government is coercing me all the freakin' time: they take a third of my earnings every week - BEFORE I get them. They spend a lot of it on stuff that I disagree with, or that's wasteful, or that is basically corrupt because it really just benefits allies of the politicians who run Big Government and the unions who operate Big Government - the SEIU, the NEA and AFSCME.

This is why Attlee's post-WW2 nationalization - GOVERNMENTALIZATION REALLY! - ruined Britain's economy and living standards and why Thatcher's privatization (de-governmentlaization) improved them.

(Previous post on Attlee and Obama here and here.)

Obama and his comrades in the Democrat Party and the SEIU, NEA, and AFSCME and his cohorts in the Chicago Machine are trying to take us down the road that Attlee took Britain down.

It will have the same disastrous results.

Which is why we musty fight Obama and Reid and Pelosi and Rahm and Axelrod and the SEIU, NEA and AFSCME with everything we've got - and then some!

Big Government run by the likes of them is far FAR more dangerous and restrictive of our rights than Biog Corporations are or ever were.

Lawyers - who along with the Big Government unions control the Democrat Party (they are Obama's biggest donors and have given more to Obama than anyone else!) - are just as destructive to us as Big Government, and they all drive the costs of all the things I want up UP UP.

Maybe we can't reduce the size of Big Government quickly, but we can lower the cost of everything if we had Tort Reform, and it wouldn't take more than ten pages to write the bill.

To do this we probably need to stop electing lawyers and anyone connected to unions to high office.

(Lawyers like Arlen Specter - a tool of the lawyer lobby.)

THE OBAMA INTIFADA: MY ELECTION EVE PREDICTION IS ALREADY BEGINNING TO COME TRUE...

WHAT I WROTE THEN:

The socialistic policies of Attlee and Obama always have the same results.... appeasement always has the same results, too. Socialism and appeasement will make the USA weaker and poorer - and this sends a clear signal to our adversaries.

Because weakness invites adventurism, there will be another intifada in Israel (their third), another in Europe - AND OUR FIRST IN THE USA.

THE OBAMA INTIFADA.

And Putin and Iran will become more aggressive in Venezuela.

And Putin will become more aggressive in Georgia and Ukraine.

And Iran will become more aggressive in Iraq.

And al Qaeda will become more aggressive in Pakistan and Kashmir.

And al Qaeda will attack us here again, too.

Obama will weaken our defenses by weakening our ability to gather intel by weakening the NSA Intercept Programs.

Obama will weaken us by ceasing deployment of Missile defense in Eastern Europe and Alaska.

And Obama will weaken us by cutting the defense budget.

TO AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OBAMA'S POLICIES WILL PRODUCE, WE MUST FIGHT OBAMA'S DANGEROUS POLICIES EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

WE SHALL.

• WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN EUROPE - AND IN THE USA - THE OFTEN VIOLENT, AND INCREASINGLY VIOLENT "DEMONSTRATIONS" IS BASICALLY WHAT I PREDICTED.

• OBAMA'S EMBRACE OF APPEASEMENT HAS ALREADY EMBOLDENED THE ENEMY - EVERYWHERE.

• AND PUTIN IS ALREADY USING GAS AS A POLITICAL WEAPON AGAINST UKRAINE AND EUROPE.

BRACE YOURSELVES: IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER.

WHAT CHURCHILL'S LOSS IN 1945 MIGHT TELL US ABOUT 2008 IN THE USA

BBC - JULY 26, 1945, (ALMOST EXACTLY 63 YEARS AGO):

Clement Attlee has been elected Britain's new prime minister after Labour won a sweeping victory in the general election.


The outgoing prime minister and great wartime leader Winston Churchill tendered his resignation immediately.


The landslide victory comes as a major shock to the Conservatives following Mr Churchill's hugely successful term as Britain's war-time coalition leader, during which he mobilised and inspired courage in an entire nation.

People voted for Attlee, in spite of admiring Churchilll as a hero

... Mr Attlee, 62, was welcomed by the King shortly afterwards and asked to form a new Government.

Throughout the election campaign Mr Churchill had appealed to the country to give his new National Government - formed after the dissolution of the Coalition government in May - a good majority.

But the appeal was rejected by the people of Britain, largely, it is thought, because they believed Labour's promises to implement the Beveridge Report and its plans for creating a welfare state.

Tired of war, the British people thought they could atke a holiday from history - again, just as they had after WW1.

Just as we did after the collapse of the USSR.

And the people who want Obama to become POTUS and CiC are animated by the same misguided, irrational and anti-historical impulses.

And the desire to have the government do for them what they should do for themselves.

The British Welfare State - like ours and like welfare states everywhere - was a failure. It diminished Great Britain and led to increased suffering. It took 30 years and Thatcher to undo it's stranglehold and save Britain from collapse.

The USA and Great Britain don't need to replay the mistakes of the past and elect Attlees or Carters or Clintons.

We don't need to take another holiday from history - not with Iran and al Qaeda still threatening the free world.

We don't need to expand the welfare state. That would just drag down the entire economy, if not the world's economy.

We don't need another Clement Attlee.

We need Reagans and Thatchers.

The closest we'll come this election is McCain - who is more like Churchill than Attlee.

CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA -
a dove who wants to reinvigorate the welfare state

UPDATED: MANY FEEL OBAMA IS SMART ENOUGH TO BE A GOOD PRESIDENT - AND THAT THIS IS ENOUGH. HERE'S WHY THEYRE WRONG:

They don't think he has the experience, but they think he is smart enough to make better decisions than Bush or McCain.

I think this is misguided analysis.

WHY?!?! Because intelligence alone doesn't necessarily lead to - and certainly doesn't guarantee - better decision making.

Advice doesn't come in boxes marked good or bad; when advice enters the Oval Office it's all marked good and it's all over the place - with competing interests each having their own agendas and advice.

Weighing advice and making good decisions depends on proper problem analysis and then in properly analyzing potential solutions against each other and thereby testing how well they might each solve the problem.

This should always mean that the decision-maker first creates a priority list of desired outcomes and evaluates potential side-effects by ascribing a value to each potential outcomes of the decision at hand; in other words, all effects and side effects are not created equal and some side effects are less problematic than others. Good decisions requires analyzing all effects and side-effects and evaluating them according to VALUES.

[For thorough discussion of this use this link and read Here is a link to the Kempner Tregoe Analysis System.]

This phase of the decision making process is decidedly UNINTELLECTUAL and has everything to do with VALUES.

This why smart people with bad values make terrible decisions.

Let's look at Obama's decision to OPPOSE the Surge and propose a retreat on a fixed timetable.

This decision reveals a value system which ignores the side effects of giving al Qaeda a huge victory, and ignores the side effect that such a defeat would signal all other real and potential adversaries of the USA and the free World. Obama's retreat would have signaled them that the USA doesn't have staying power and has reverted to Vietnam Era "resolvlessness". It would motivate all our enemies to become more dangerous to us. And make us and all our allies LESS SAFE.

That's why the the decision to cut losses by cutting-out would have been worse than staying the course until the job was done.

The AWFUL decision on Obama's part to oppose the Surge reveals he doesn't have the best set of values for the job of president.

Obama overvalues what foreigners FEEL about the USA and undervalues the INDISPENSABLE role we have played since WW2.

Ot proves that Obama would sacrifice our national security strength on the altar of multi-lateralism and pacifism. It proves that the pacifist/multilateralist VALUE is central to Obama's worldview and it also explains why he is opposed to Missile Defense and would chat with Ahmadinejad et al without any preconditions.

Overall, his values are decidedly leftist and pacifist, and his leftist and pacifist values will mean that all of his decisions will likely have very bad consequences - regardless of his supposed intelligence.

REPEAT: Overall, his values are decidedly leftist and pacifist, and his leftist and pacifist values will mean that all of his decisions will likely have very bad consequences - regardless of his supposed intelligence.

REPEAT: Overall, his values are decidedly leftist and pacifist, and his leftist and pacifist values will mean that all of his decisions will likely have very bad consequences - regardless of his supposed intelligence.

A dumb leftist may make stupid decisions with bad consequences, but a smart leftist will make clever decisions which will have TERRIBLE consequences.

Decision makers with left-wing value systems will make bad decisions because leftist values are unreal: they don't work; they've never worked' they can't work.

Left-wing utopianist schemes implemented by totalitarian regimes run by the best and the brightest in any given nation have ALWAYS failed not because those who ran them were dummies or especially corrupt, but because the schemes are based on a warped value system.

Lefties have a value system which denigrates the sanctity of the individual and which denies the fact that the individual is the sole agent in human social intercourse, and which treats humans as members of a class, and which seeks to set up elites which will predetermine and control outcomes which it deems are better is a fundamentally warped and anti-human system and everything such a value system builds is bound to be bad as a result.

Carter was no dummie. Neither was Attlee or Brezhnev or Gorbachev - or Pol Pot or Stalin or Kim il Sung.

History is lettered with "well-meaning" smart lefties who ruined their countries.

And Obama is one of this ilk - at best.

That's why - if elected, (G-D PLEASE FORBID!), Obama will ruin America, and that will endanger the entire free world.

*******UPDATE - NOTE:

One reason Palin frightens all the lefties and many northeast conservative elite is that she is not an intellectual.

Palin has conservative values and has led a conservative life; she is not a conservative of ideas or essays.

This is also why she has been and would continue to be a great decision maker.

OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT OF JIHADISTS CONTINUES UNABATED

• OBAMA'S FIRST INTERVIEW WAS WITH AL ARABIYA.
• HIS FIRST CALL TO ABBAS.
• HE'S REACHING OUT TO IRAN.
• HE THINKS IT'S FINE THAT 5 MILLION PAKISTANIS IN SWAT ARE NOW LIVING UNDER SHARIA.
• AND THAT'S JUST THE START!

THERE'S MORE ON THE WAY:

JPOST:

The Defense Ministry is concerned that US President Barack Obama will cut military aid to Israel in an effort to pressure the new government to take action against illegal outposts and settlement construction, defense officials said.

The officials spoke with The Jerusalem Post ahead of both a visit later this week by US Middle East envoy George Mitchell and the Obama administration's anticipated release of the fiscal 2010 budget, which includes funding for foreign aid.

"Mitchell is a known opponent of the outposts and the settlements," a senior defense official said. "The Americans may try to use the military aid as a way of pressuring the new government into dismantling outposts and freezing construction in settlements."

JPOST:

A US congressman plans to brief fellow members of Congress and the Obama administration about his recent trip to Gaza, saying the US should pressure Israel regarding border closures and reassess its military support for the Jewish state.

US Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., left and US Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., right, take photos of the rubble of the American International school in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday.
Photo: AP

Rep. Brian Baird, a Democrat from Washington state, visited Gaza last week with fellow Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota and was struck by "the level of destruction, the scope of it, specifically the civilian targets - schools, hospitals, industry."

Baird also said Israel had "apparently willfully destroyed any capacity of the Palestinians to rebuild their own infrastructure."

The trip to Gaza by Baird and Ellison coincided with a separate visit there by John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. Their presence marked the first time members of Congress had visited Gaza since US personnel were killed in a roadside bomb in 2003.

OBAMA HAS ALSO APPOINTED A SLEW OF ANTI-ZIONIST.

• OBAMA WILL PUT MORE PRESSURE ON ISRAEL THAN ON THE ARABS.

• NO SURPRISE HERE: HIS MIDDLE NAME IS HUSSEIN. AND HE'S A LEFTIE. A MIX OF CHAMBERLAIN AND ATTLEE.

• A DISASTER. AS BAD ON FOREIGN POLICY AS ON THE RECESSION AND SPENDING.

OBAMA IS A DISASTER.

AS EUROPE MOVES RIGHT, OBAMA WANTS THE USA TO MOVE LEFT: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS MATT WELCH AND INSTAPUNDIT BY ER, UM... DAYS, WEEKS AND YEARS

UPDATED - SCROLL DOWN!

MATT WELCH AND INSTAPUNDIT TODAY:

MATT WELCH: President follows Europe into places Europeans no longer want to go. "... The grand irony here is that the very continent we’re scrambling to emulate has been moving aggressively in the opposite direction on taxes and economic policy...."

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS POSTED ON THIS ON 4/22 - AND PREVIOUSLY ON 4/11 - AND IN A GENERAL WAY IN ALL OF OUR 18 OR SO CLEMENT ATTLEE/OBAMA POSTS.

OUR FIRST ONE WAS JULY OF 2008 - NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO, AND THEN AGAIN ON THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION.

• MCCAIN'S DEFEAT WAS LIKE BRITAIN FIRING CHURCHILL AND ELECTING ATTLEE, AND OBAMA HAS ON THE SAME DISASTROUS COURSE THAT ATTLEE PUT BRITAIN ON.

• WE NEED A THATCHER - OR REAGAN - TO GET US OUT OD THE HOLE OBAMA IS DIGGING US INTO.

UPDATE: SCOOPED HOT AIR ON THIS. WHAT ELSE IS NEW!?

THE UNBRIDLED SOCIALISM OF OBAMA

He's taken over the auto industry.

And a lot of the banking/financial industry.

And he has his eyes on the healthcare industry.

Together, they make up a BIG chunk of the economy. What... maybe 30%? Plus the federal government already is a huge part of the economy.

This esplosive growth of the government is an un-American intrusion into pour businesses and is FUNDAMENTALLY anti-freemarket.

There's been nothing like it since Attlee took over from Churchill after WW2 - and nationalized about 60% of the British economy. RUINING IT FOR THREE DECADES!



It's costing us a fortune already - what Obama has given Detroit $50 Billion so far, maybe more, and their STILL going bankrupt!
]"CLEMENT ATTLEE OBAMA".

All Obama's policies will do is make the goods and services these industries offer WORSE.

It's the sovietization of America. He's trying to Chavezify us.

We mustn't let him.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF WHY INCOME REDISTRIBUTION IS STUPID AND BOUND TO FAIL EVERY TIME

Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich in order to lower them on the poor and the lower middleclass and in order to pay for more welfare for the poor and lower middleclass.

Basically, Obama is going to take about $15000 dollars (approximately) from every "wealthy" person so he can give $500 dollars to every poor person.

• On the one hand, the amount the poor person is going get from Obama is not going to be enough to make a real difference in their life.

• On the other hand, the amount the rich are going to lose is going to be enough to retard investment and slow economic growth and the creation of more jobs and greater prosperity.

That's why there's a net loss for the economy and why poverty goes on essentially unabated at best - or worsens under socialism.

If multiplier effects of make-work government spending and welfare truly grew the economy then the USSR would be the richest economy on Earth - (right ahead of Zimbabwe and North Korea. And Thatcher wouldn't have had to save Britain from Attlee - or Reagan save the USA from The Great Society).

SO, WHERE IS THE USSR TODAY?

Well, now you know why.

PS: To Obama, rich means anyone making more than $250,000. In NYC that's A LOT of people. And they mostly voted for Obama. Idiots.

CHURCHILL VERSUS OBAMA, CHAMBERLAIN AND HITLER

CHURCHILL - 11/16/1934:

Everyone would be glad to see the burden of armaments reduced in every country, but history shows on many a page that armaments are not necessarily a cause of war and that the want of them has been no guarantee of peace.

If, for instance, all the explosives all over the world could, by a wave of a magic wand be robbed of their power and made harmless, so that not a cannon nor a rifle could fire and not a shell or a bomb detonate, that would be a measure of world disarmament far beyond the brightest dreams of Geneva, but would it insure peace? That is the question.

On the contrary, in my belief, war would begin almost the next day when enormous masses of fierce men armed with picks, spades, or with clubs and spears, would pour over the frontiers into the lands they covet.

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized.

Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

... When we look out upon the state of Europe and of the world and of the position of our own country as they are tonight, it seems to me that the next year or two years may contain a faithful turning point in our history.

I am afraid that if you look intently at what is moving towards Great Britain, you will see that the only choice open is the old grim choice our forebears had to face, namely, whether we shall submit or whether we shall prepare, whether we shall submit to the will of the stronger nation or whether we shall prepare to defend our rights, our liberties, and indeed, our lives.

If we submit, our submission should be timely. If we prepare, our preparation should not be too late.

... You have heard the old doctrine of the balance of power.

I don't accept it.

Anything like a balance of power in Europe will lead to war.

Great wars usually come only when both sides think they have good hopes of victory.

Peace must -be founded upon preponderance. There is safety in numbers. If there were five or six on each side, there might well be, a frightful trial of strength, but if there were eight or ten on one side and only one or two upon the other, and if the collective armed forces of one side were three or four times as large as those of the other, then there would be no war.

CHURCHILL WAS RIGHT THEN - AND HE IS RIGHT NOW.

OBAMA'S SOPHOMORIC POLICIES OF APPEASEMENT AND DISARMAMENT ONLY MAKE US LESS SAFE.

WHEN OBAMA MOVED INTO THE OVAL OFFICE HE RUDELY RETURNED A BUST OF CHURCHILL WHICH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT GAVE US AFTER 9/11.


WORSE THAN THAT: OBAMA HAS TURNED HIS BACK ON CHURCHILL'S WISDOM. OBAMA IS MORE LIKE ATTLEE AND CHAMBERLAIN.

AND WE SHALL ALL SUFFER AS A RESULT.

UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES - SOON.

IS THE TERM "SOCIALIST" AN EPITHET?

EPITHET: 

a disparaging or abusive word or phrase 

THE TERM "SOCIALIST" IS ONLY CONSIDERED A DISPARAGING AND ABUSIVE EPITHET IN THE USA - BY LIBERALS AND LEFTISTS, FOLKS WHO CALL THEMSELVES "PROGRESSIVES".

IN EUROPE, SOCIALISTS CALL THEMSELVES SOCIALISTS, PROUDLY... HONESTLY - AND THEY GET ELECTED AS SUCH.

•  FRANCE JUST ELECTED A SOCIALIST.

• SPAIN HAD A SOCIALIST PM FOR A DECADE, 

• UNTIL JUST THIS YEAR. GERMANY HAD SOCIALIST CHANCELLORS, TOO. 

• AND BRITAIN'S LABOUR PARTY WAS A SOCIALIST PARTY UNTIL BLAIR.

BUT IN THE USA, MOST SOCIALISTS PRETEND TO BE MERE LIBERALS.

WHY THE DISHONESTY?

BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT MOST AMERICANS BY FAR ARE ANTI-SOCIALISTS, AND THAT IF THEY WERE HONEST ABOUT THEIR GOALS THAT THEY'D NEVER EVER WIN AN ELECTION.

• THAT'S WHY THEY FEIGN ANGER WHEN WE CALL THEM WHAT THEY REALLY ARE.

• THAT'S WHY THEY SAY WE'RE RED-BAITING WHEN WE CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE.

• THAT'S WHY THEY RUN AS "PROGRESSIVES" AND AS "THIRD WAY" POLITICIANS AS THEY PROMOTE STEALTH SOCIALISM.

NO AMERICAN "PROGRESSIVE" POLITICIAN HAS EVER BEEN A BIGGER LIAR OR PROMOTED A MORE RADICAL AGENDA THAN OBAMA.

YUP: JOE THE PLUMBER WAS RIGHT - AND THE LAST FOUR YEARS PROVE IT, AS DOES THE STATE OF THE US ECONOMY - WHICH IS SUFFERING AS ALL ECONOMIES SUFFER UNDER SUFFOCATING SOCIALIST POLICIES.

THE ECONOMIES OF GREECE AND SPAIN AND ITALY AND FRANCE AND THE EU ARE TEETERING BECAUSE OF THEIR SOCIALIST POLICIES AND PROGRAMS.

• THEY DIDN'T HAVE "BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH". 
• THEY DIDN'T HAVE "TWO UNFUNDED WARS". 
• THEY DIDN'T HAVE "RUNAWAY WALL STREET GREED" THAT WAS ALLOWED TO RUN RAMPANT BECAUSE OF "REPUBLICAN DEREGULATION" AND "TRICKLE DOWN POLICIES OF THE RIGHT-WING".
• AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY REAL AUSTERITY, EITHER.

IT'S THE SOCIALISM, STUPID.

SOCIALISM HAS NEVER WORKED - NOT ANYWHERE, NOT ANY TIME.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: 

• THE NEW DEAL FAILED. 

• AND THE GREAT SOCIETY FAILED, TOO.

• AND OBAMA'S SO-CALLED STIMULUS FAILED TOO - MISERABLY. AT LEAST IN ACHIEVING ITS PUBLICLY STATED GOALS. IT DID ENRICH THE MACHINE THOUGH.

SOCIALISTS LIKE OBAMA AND REID AND PELOSI - ARE SOCIALISTS LIKE BREZHNEV WAS A SOCIALIST:

BREZHNEV WAS A CORRUPT STATIST WHO TOOK CARE OF HIMSELF AND HIS CRONIES AND HIS PARTY - AND WHOSE POLICIES DESTROYED RUSSIA AND ITS SATELLITES ECONOMICALLY BECAUSE IT SHACKLED THE PEOPLE MAKING THEM LESS FREE, LESS RICH AND LESS HEALTHY.

THE SOCIALIST TRIFECTA:

1. LESS FREE; 
2. LESS RICH; 
3. AND LESS HEALTHY.

IF WE RE-ELECT OBAMA, THEN HE AND HIS COMRADES WILL DO TO AMERICA WHAT THE COMMUNISTS DID TO RUSSIA AND WHAT THE LABOUR PARTY UNDER ATTLEE DID TO BRITAIN:

THEY WILL DESTROY US.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

VOTE ROMNEY-RYAN.

DEMINT: TELLING LIKE IT IS: OBAMA IS PUSHING SOCIALISM

CNN:

Another prominent Republican told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that the president’s spending plans are pushing the country to the brink of socialism.

Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the only member of the senate to earn a perfect rating from the American Conservative Union, called President Obama “the world’s best salesman of socialism” on Friday in describing his prime time speech earlier this week.

DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to “take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.”

• OBAMA HAS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET. HE'S ANOTHER ATTLEE.
  
• HE MAKES FDR LOOK LIKE REAGAN!
• THERE ARE CERTAINLY MANY SOCIALISTS IN THE US - MAYBE 25% OF THE ELECTORATE.
• BUT NOT A MAJORITY.
• MAYBE A MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA -
• BUT NOT THE SWING VOTERS WHO PUT HIM OVER THE TOP.
• AND HE DIDN'T RUN ON SOCIALISM.
• HE HOODWINKED THEM!
  
• SO THERE'S GONNA BE A HUGE BACKLASH,
• IT'S GONNA MAKE 1994 LOOK LIKE A PICNIC FOR THE DEMS.

KENNEDY BILL WOULD FORCE EMPLOYERS TO OFFER HEALTH INSURANCE

AND IT WOULD IMPOSE A HELLUVA LOT MORE, TOO:

Employers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty, and all Americans would be guaranteed health insurance, under a draft bill being circulated Friday by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's health committee.

The bill would provide subsidies to help poor people afford care, and give patients the right to select any doctor they want.

Insurers would be required to provide a basic level of care and [BE REQUIRED TO] cover all comers, without turning people away because of pre-existing conditions or other reasons.

It's already been known that Kennedy's health committee was planning to pursue most of the concepts outlined in the draft of the bill, called the ''American Health Choices Act.'' But it's the first actual bill language to circulate since Congress began working on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

"HEALTH CHOICE ACT"!?!? IS HE FREAKIN' KIDDING!?!? THIS IS ALL ABOUT TAKING AWAY OUR CHOICES, AND MAKING THE STATE MORE POWERFUL.

• WHY SHOULD ANYONE'S HEALTHCARE BE TIED TO ANYONE'S JOB!?

• IT MAKES NO SENSE; IN FACT, IT'S AN ANACHRONISM OF A BAD DEAL FDR MADE DURING WW2! NRO:

  Most Americans receive their health insurance from their employer. Few pause, however, to contemplate why. As part of the war effort, the FDR administration imposed wage and price controls. Employers, seeking a way to provide workers with competitive salaries without violating the law, began offering health benefits. On October 26, 1943, the IRS legitimized the practice, ruling that health benefits would remain tax free.

• THE GOP PLAN WOULD GIVE INDIVIDUALS THE TAX CREDIT FOR BUYING WHATEVER PLAN THEY WANT, A CREDIT CURRENTLY GIVEN TO EMPLOYERS FOR OFFERING HEALTH INSURANCE.

• KENNEDY AND OBAMA ARE TRYING TO DO TO THE USA WHAT ATTLEE DID TO POST-WAR GREAT BRIT IAN, MOVES WHICH RUINED BRITAIN.

WE NEED ANOTHER THATCHER AND A REAGAN, BUT WE GOT ANOTHER ATTLEE.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, THESE ATTLEESQUE POLICIES WILL RUIN US, IF THEY PASS.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.